Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey
A Biography
(Sprache: Englisch)
An insightful analysis of the two great epic poems that have served as the cornerstone of Western literature traces the history of The Iliad and The Odyssey from their earliest origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its...
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An insightful analysis of the two great epic poems that have served as the cornerstone of Western literature traces the history of The Iliad and The Odyssey from their earliest origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their important legacy for Western culture.
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No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is no little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and The Odyssey , with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brace Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive. They have fed our imagination for over two and a half millennia, inspiring everyone from Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, Dante to Wolfgang Petersen. In this graceful and sweeping addition to the Books that Change the World Series, Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of the epic poems. He considers their original purpose, either as allegory or record of history, surveys the challenges the pagan poems presented to the early Christian world, and traces their spread after the Reformation. Following Homer through the greatest literature ever created, Manguel's book above all delights in the poems themselves, the primordial spring without which there would have been no culture."
Autoren-Porträt von Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel, geb. 1948 in Buenos Aires, wirkte unter anderem in Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Mailand und Toronto als Verlagslektor und Literaturdozent. Er übersetzte zahlreiche Bücher und ist Herausgeber von Anthologien und Kurzgeschichten. Er lebt vorwiegend in Toronto und Paris und ist seit 1988 kanadischer Staatsbürger.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alberto Manguel
- 2007, 288 Seiten, Maße: 19,685 cm, Leinen, Englisch
- Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
- ISBN-10: 0871139766
- ISBN-13: 9780871139764
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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